Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right, the thicker ones are drop scones or griddle scones in Yorkshire English,( or Scotch pancakes or girdle pancakes) - and you don't have to eat them on a Tuesday :-) The griddle or girdle is a thick, round, cast iron plate with a bow handle that can either be set on a hob or hung over a fire Make them with yeast, and they turn into pikelets (West Midlands and Yorkshire) - often sold ready-made under the name of crumpets. In the Potteries area (Staffordshire), they make a pancake from oats - oatcakes - that are served with almost anything from jam to baked beans and curry. When I lived in Hanley, and later Longton, in the early seventies, they were almost as popular as fish and chips, and no one had ever even heard of Kebabs. http://www.staffordshireoatcakes.com/ Cheers Douglas On 23.09.2010 11:13, Peter Cheyne wrote: > Mark, > > In English English, we call those thin fried cakes > made from batter 'pancakes' . You can have fun trying > to flip them in one swift flick of the wrist. In > Japanese English they call the thicker, perhaps US, > variety 'hot-cakes'. > > Maybe these tiny thin pancake lenses should be > selling like 'hot cakes'. > > All the best, > > Peter Cheyne > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information >